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Welcome to the learning community designed and managed by Ms. Rita Callahan, instuctor of economics and mathematics. Most of you are current or former students from my classes. I trust you will enjoy this attempt to connect our studies to the real world. From time to time I will make observations on my experiences and things I read. I hope you will comment and add your observations as well.


There is much to learn form others, especially those whose experiences may differ from our own. As I mention elsewhere in this blog, this is my attempt to incorporate 21st century learning formats into the educational experience of my students. Perhaps this will invite some interesting discussions.





Thursday, May 10, 2012

For years I have told my economics students that in the US we have the "best democracy money can buy." Having just read Matt Taibbi's May 2012 article "How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform", I see I am not alone in this belief. It makes me crazy to read how our elected officials and government employees sell out to the special interests with money, even if it means putting our entire economy at risk once again. This is boring, confusing stuff, so they get away with gutting important regualtions while the American public worries about whether or not an adorable TV/movie star is a homosexual. What is important? I can only hope that my students will want to pay attention to these issues after they finish my economics classes.
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